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Sentence Quests

Students find cards with words on them (color code and have students work in groups) and bring them back to the group and build them into a sentence. This can focus on capitalization, punctuation and sentence structure.

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Allow students to see me revise my own writing in real time.

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Celebrate their messy first drafts!

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Put the kids drawings through AI to create 3D images. This could help encourage the students to add details to their drawing.

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Use logos to help kids get excited about writing.

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Microscoping

Focus on one topic and come up with a question. Research that question and use the data to come up with a new question. Continue and talk with the students about where we end up.

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Provide immediate feedback when answering social studies questions so students can correct their answers to better understand the material.

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Putting letters in alphabetical order on their magnet boards is a great bell ringer for small groups.

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Book Source App for organizing and evaluating my classroom library.

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Prewriting in kindergarten can look like:

Drawings

Lists

Can/have/are

Know/wonder/learn

...

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Mastery Grades vs. Growth Grades

Consider adding growth grades for certain assignments. Mastery is the goal, but growth is the path to get there.

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Record yourself occasionally to evaluate how you teach a lesson.

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Camp, Cave, Watering Hole

Allow students to choose if they want to work independently (they understand the content and are ready to go), if they want to work with a partner (for a little extra support) or if they want to stay with me (reteach support).

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b/d reversals

(To the tune "If you're Happy...")

Bat and a ball, that's a b

Bat and a ball, that's a b

You can make a capital B,

erase the top and then you see,

the bat and the ball that's a b.

Separate chant

Seeeee (c) the d

Seeeee (c) the d

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The ABCs of Inclusion by Beth Leipholtz

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Back to Back Discussions

Students sit in groups of 2 or 3 with their backs facing one another. They spend a couple of minutes looking through their text for information (science, social studies, heart words, specific letters, etc) and when time is up, they turn around to the group and share what they found.

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In addition to preteaching vocabulary from the Big Book. Find ways to insert them into the week to continue reinforcing those words.

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Build compound words and discuss root words and new meaning. Have student come up with their own compound words. Silly ones accepted.

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After hearing a story, walk a path and pick up items or pictures along the way to retell the story. Later in the year, students can choose what items to use. Then we can trade with Mrs. Hahn's class and try to retell the story with her classes' items.